Kerri Battle, owner of Tulip Time, opeartes a local chain of floral shops. Each shop has its own delivery van. Instead of charging a flat delivery fee, Battle wants to set the delivery fee based on the distance driven to deliver the flowers. Battle want to separate the fixed and variable portions of her van opearting costs so that she has a better idea how delivery distance affect these costs.

She has the following data from the past seven month:

Month	Miles Driven	Van Operating
January	15,500	$5,390
February	17,400	$5,280
March	15,400	$4,960
April	16,300	$5,340
May	16,500	$5,450
June	15,200	$5,230
July	14,400	$4,680

Requirements

1. Prepare a scatter plot of Tulip Time's volume (miles driven) and van operating costs.

2. Does the data apper to contain any outliers? Explain.

3. How strong of a relationship is there between miles driven and van operating costs?

Requirement 1. Prepare a scatter plot of Tulip Time's volume (miles driven) and van operating costs.

Plot the points on the graph now.

Requirement 2. Does the data appear to contain any outliers? Explain.

The data ________(appears or does not appear) to contain outliers. All data points fall in ___________(random pattern, same general pattern, same general pattern with the exception of one month)

Requirement 3. How strong of a relationship is there between miles driven and van opearting cost?

There appears to be __________(very weak, very strong, no) relationship between van operating costs and miles driven. We can tell this because the data points fall in a__________. ( curved line, fairly tight, lineaur pattern, horizontal line, random pattern)